Word: properity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ball game is arranged for the afternoon before, the interval between this and the dance will be the most natural time for many of the spreads which have heretofore come on Class Day and have made the day too crowded. At the same time the Class Day exercises proper, comprising the exercises at Sanders Theatre, the Tree Exercises, and the illumination of the Yard in the evening, will remain the same as in former years...
...possible to enter into detailed complaint here, but the frequent appearance at the table of meat and poultry unfit to be eaten, the lack of proper supervision of the cooking and serving of the food, and above all the monotony of the bill of fare, justify the assertion that no attempt whatever is made to please the members...
...brief, although the present steward receives a salary which is, to say the least, very liberal, his management of the Hall is characterized by apparent indifference to the welfare of the members, so that the Hall is rapidly losing the popularity which it should have under proper management...
...years, although it has always been a calm steady reasoning interest rather than a fiery enthusiasm, firing up one day and dying away the next. It has been based on the growing conviction that the ability to speak well in public is not only desirable but necessary for the proper and complete equipment of an educated man. Anything that will deepen this conviction, and so increase the interest in debating and public speaking, is to be welcomed; not only because it will be an aid to success in the intercollegiate debates, but because it will help to broaden the field...
...custom is a bad one. Nor is it any argument to say that former classes have seen nothing wrong in the Tree exercises. Not to speak of the fact that the exercises have grown worse year by year, it is enough to remember that hazing and slavery were thought proper in their...